David Hatfield Sparks is a writer, teacher, musician, and gay father who has been active in queer multicultural communities from the Midwest and Manhattan to Austin, Texas, and San Francisco. His publications with his long-time companion-husband Randy P. Conner (1952-2022) were nominated for Lambda Awards. His poems and essays have appeared in spiritual, feminist, and LGBTQ publications, including the anthologies First Person Queer: Who we are so far (2007), She Is Everywhere (vol. 3, 2012), El